In re A.B. CA4/2

FACTS

The subject of this dependency is mother’s four-year-old daughter, A.B. Mother

has two other adult children who are not the subjects of this dependency. Father struggles

with mental health issues, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. He takes

psychiatric medication, though he often struggles to remain on these medications. Mother

had a criminal history, with an active warrant for shoplifting in Arizona. Father also had a

criminal history, a misdemeanor trespassing conviction in 2008, and an aggravated

trespassing conviction from August 2020. Father received three years’ probation for the

latter and was still on probation when these dependency proceedings began.

2 A. Events Leading to Dependency Proceedings

Between 2019 and November 2021, police responded to domestic violence calls at

mother and father’s residence at least 20 times. Father’s probation officer told the

department that at some point police were responding to the parents’ home on a weekly

basis. The majority of these happened between May 29, 2021, and November 10, 2021,

during which time the police responded to mother and father’s residence 12 times.

On May 29, 2021, someone called…